Grade Inflation
What’s the point of grades?
We need to rethink exam results as indicators of personal achievement
Less is more
Higher Education maintains an elevated status because little respect is given to alternatives
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Britain is draining vulnerable health systems
Short-termist immigration policies are also damaging foreign nations
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
London’s lamps live on
Thanks to the dedication of the Gasketeers, a beautiful tradition has been saved
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power